amaranth needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 66 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
amaranth is the highest-scoring word from amaranth, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 66 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in amaranth — and it is amaranth itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling amaranth produces exactly one seven-letter word: maranta. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amaranth. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are haram and tharm, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in amaranth produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with harm, math, and than. For points, the strongest plays are amah, harm, and math — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling amaranth turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, aha and ant. For points, the strongest play is ham — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amaranth. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and an. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in amaranth plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in amaranth and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
amaranth is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for amaranth. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
amaranth is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing amaranth unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is amaranth, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from amaranth earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in amaranth produce 66 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.